Lynch was wanted in connection with the Jan. 19, 2005, shooting death of Asim Haniff Davis.

Witnesses said Mr. Davis was waiting at a stop sign in his Ford Crown Victoria when an SUV drove by. According to police, the SUV then backed up and Lynch and alleged accomplice, Bryant Hayward, then opened fire on Mr. Davis, killing him.

Lynch narrowly eluded local police, fleeing to Florida, where officers with the U.S. Marshals Service were not able to locate him.

The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department got a tip that Lynch was at the home of a girlfriend Tuesday, and were just preparing to storm the building in riot gear when Lynch took a call from a relative who convinced him to surrender.

The arrest has given a measure of closure to Davis' mother, Liz, who says she now hopes to find out the motive behind the killing.

It should also be noted that Lynch's capture was a cooperative effort, based on a CrimeStoppers tip. Kudos to the tipster. This is more evidence of the effectiveness of partnerships between police and the people they protect.

The other case that saw significant progress Tuesday has moved passed the arrest phase and on to sentencing.

That was in the federal prosecution of William Allen McCabe of Bloomingdale, who admitted using his position of trust to take advantage of little girls.

The pasty-looking, 31-year-old gymnastics coach has finally acknowledged his guilt in a case that involves the emailing pornographic images to little girls who attended classes at his gym.

Early on in their probe, investigators said he posed as a woman gym coach during these computer exchanges and tried to coax the girls into talking about how the graphic images made them feel.

In court proceedings this week, prosecutors proved that McCabe also secretly took pictures of girls in a locker room in various states of undress as they changed for class. His students ranged in age from 5 to 18.

The photos were found on his computer, saved under file names like "hot," "beauty," "awesome" and "perfect," police said. If that's not deviancy, what is? Authorities testified he had emailed those pictures to recipients around the country, cemeting his creepiness.

McCabe pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of children and making false statements to investigators. The plea was part of a deal in which prosecutors will drop the rest of the 19 counts he faced, including possession of child pornography.

He will get a minimum of five years, up to a maximum of 35 years in prison. There is no possibility of parole under the federal charges. McCabe could also be subject to supervised release conditions for the rest of his life.

The age of McCabe's victims, combined with the fact that he distributed photos of the girls to other perverts, is a strong argument for a tough sentence.

The fact that this is not the first time he has had contact with a minor - a 16-year-old female gymnastics student got a restraining order against him in Florida after inappropriate touching - argues for a lifetime of monitoring after he is released from prison.

A study conducted by a Senate subcommittee found that no single characteristic among pedophiles is more pervasive than an obsession with child pornography. The report, entitled "The Harm of Illegal Hard-Core and Child Pornography," suggests pedophiles start with child pornography and move on to the sexual abuse of children.

There is no evidence he has yet taken that next step. But given McCabe's known record, the longer he is behind bars, the better.